Claire Chambolle

INRA, CNRS/Ecole polytechnique

Economist

Claire Chambolle is a Research fellow at the National Institute of Research in Agronomics (INRA-ALISS) and is associated to Ecole Polytechnique (LEEP). She holds a Phd in Economics from the University of Paris I. Specialized in the analysis of the retail sector, her research lies in the field of Industrial Economics and Competition Policy. Together with Marie-Laure Allain, she published several books also as academic research articles on the vertical relationships between manufacturers and retailers and the regulation of the retail sector. She has been regularly involved in the recent discussions on the reform of the French Galland law.

11823 Review

Both aspects of the grocery retail sector regulation, i.e. the rules on unfair behaviours and those governing the market structures have evolved in different ways since 2005. Further to the Competition Authority’s opinion of 17 December 2010 discussions moved toward the relevance of more (...)

This is a set of 5 articles on Resale Price Maintenance. This topic has recently been debated following the US Supreme Court Leegin ruling and the draft French reform of the antitrust act. The first article is written by 2 leading economists on the economic debate on the welfare effects of (...)